December 2021

Session Resources: Culturally Responsive Instruction and the Native American Experience

Culturally Relevant Pedagogy

• Presentation slide deck

• Sanborn Maps

• Library of Congress Bird's Eye maps

• Library of Congress primary source analysis graphic organizers 

• Inquiry in the Upper Midwest - Minnesota Historical Society

  • Classroom videos, recorded webinars, and primary source sets

Suggested literature connections and examples

• Cuba in My Pocket

• They Called Us Enemy

• The Birchbark House

• Sounds of the Birchbark House

• Seeds of America Trilogy

• Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America's Independence

• Stella by Starlight

• The Prince and the Dressmaker

• A Spy in the House

Identity Maps

• Facing History Identity Maps

• Virtual Thesaurus Identity Maps

Connections between past and present

• Descendants of Founder Fathers image / article

• Women in the American Story

• Competing Visions of American poll results

Mid-America All Indian Center 

• Presentation slide deck - Native American Experience in the Midwest

• Mid America All Indian Museum

• Native Land website

• World War One: The Original Code Talkers

Suggested literature connections and examples

• There There

• Firekeeper's Daughter

• The Marrow Thieves

• Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two

• #NotYourPrincess: Voices of Native American Women

• Bless Me, Ultima